IHS holds a Fusion on GW!

Last wednesday, my school IHS held a fusion on global warming. It went surprisingly well & hopefully, people will change their habits.

OH, don't forget.. THIS SUNDAY IS EARTH DAY!!..SO DO SOMETHING, TURN OFF THE HOT WATER, PLANT A TREE/PLANT (don't if you live in a cold place), DON'T TURN ON THE AC since it'll be a hot weekend, DON'T STAY ON THE COMPUTER FOR TOO LONG, DON'T USE TOO MUCH ELECTRICITY, SHUT OFF MACHINES WHEN NOT IN USE etc. Find events that are happening in your area or in central park or whatever. There must be some kind of event & I'm sure it'll be fun. Just google (google.com) it or goodsearch (goodsearch.com) it. I prefer goodsearch since everytime you search, a little bit money goes to a charity of you choice.

The school took a lot of pictuers of the event. I got them from the school website. Here are pics from the event:

Fusion - April 18, 2007

Ms.Ruth from IHS's environmental club


Chris from Solar One came to speak. It was a lengthy speech..but worthwhile. If you remember, the organization Solar One was also a part of the STEP IT UP, SEA OF PEOPLE rally.




thats PANYC..don't worry they're not panicking...lol.


Carol, holding a poll kind of thing with the audience.


yea, the bookmarks were awesome. I always wanted one of those.






Hamza from Origins, strand 2 asking some questions.










Nepalllll!!


Tibet as a desert!?..I can't imagine that!










IHS students


*looking intently* thinking hard*scratching their heads*


Percy explaining to us the importance of mother Earth.


Percy during his speech.


The two emcees hosting the program..ahem*. Sonam from OR and Juan from..um...i forgot.


Mr.Patrick Wong looks away from the stage and gazes at the camera for a picture.


People getting ready to leave.


The after FUSION at the hallways of IHS

People calculating their ecological footprint, figuring out how many earths would be needed if they continue living the way they are

Ms. Sara helping students




teacher, Ms.Amy & our shcool Principal Ms. Lee Pan


awesome banner!


Mr.Scott during the Q&A in Fusion.


Our school's Principal and Ms.Amy Madden, the art teacher.










teachers, Ms.Sara from Connections and Ms.Amy Madden


Even the school's staff check their ecological footprints.







That's all. I'm sooooo glad that our school students are so involved with enviromental issues. Now I just hope the school takes more actions on the issue.

we STEPPED UP.

Yea. The rally was a lot of fun!! Today, there were Step Up rallies just like the one in NYC in all 50 or 49 states..idk...because it's National Climate Action day. Luckily, it was on the news..but I didn't see me!!..hehe.. There were a lot more people than I expected & I also bumped into my fellow Global Kids.. I didn't know they were coming but it were awesome. There were a few speakers..an evangelical leader who stressed on the environment in the name of god..then this guy spoke..he had graduated from Harvard and got some other degree in bio from Yale..yea so he did a brief speech on the science of Global Warming..there were a few other speakers who spoke on the relationship between the Global Warming's effects and the minorities. Namita from GK gave a speech also. & I saw Thitapa there & I took tonnnsssss of pictures to share on the blog & one totally rad video!!!





i was taping the video with my camera. GK, enthusiastic as always.


I was half an hour late to the rally...because I kind of got lost...I wasn't sure if I was in the right train or not..until I met some other folks on the train that were also on the way there. So I and others who weren't so sure followed them. We had stopped at South Ferry but we weren't on the first 5 cabins!! so then we got off at Rutners st and walked to Battery Park. The person I & others followed..lol.. :


















Thitapa & I


other pics:


hehhe..creatures of the sea.


Angela, Sam, Namita, I & other folks from the GK in L.I.C that came.

GK! OK!

So this lady was giving out these leaflets about vegetarianism & I totally support her.
Because:

• The meat industry causes more water pollutin in the U.S. than all other industries combined because animals raised for food prodce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population does. --86,000 ounds per second! & it pollutes our rivers & lakes more than all other industries combined.

• Nearly 80% of all agricultural land in America is used to raise animals for food.

• Meat production causes Global Warming. There is methane in the poop of animals. Methane is a greenhouse gas just like carbon dioxide, except it's 20 times worse than carbon dioxide because it traps much more heat than carbon dioxide making the earth warmer. It's not just one or two animals pooping, it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of factories of animals pooping.

• Raising animals for food requires more than one third of all raw materials and fossil fuels used in the U.S. They include--fuel to produce crops that are fed to animals, oil to run the trucks that take them to the slaughter house, electricity to freeze their carcuses & much more.

Being a vegetarian could save the planet. You can look at it as a moral issue or an environmental issue but then again everybody has to make their own decisions & their own commitments. Or you can atleast cut down on how much meat you eat.

These girls were swimming in the pit like fishes in the sea. They were doing the moves & people were clapping for them..it was pretty cool.






that just says it.


wowww..lotssss of peopleeeeeee!!

well these were all pics that i took while trying to hold on to my poster..if u want to see pics that others took u can go to: www.flickr.com/groups/seaofpeople/

or you can watch videos that people took of this rally at: www.youtube.com/group/seaofpeople
& You can always go to: www.seaofpeople.org
or www.stepitup2007.org

i'm physched for the rally 2morrow!

The rally tomorrow is going to be totally awesome..well I'm hoping that it'll be. You know, at first I was a little bummed out that my friend's mom wouldn't let her go because she thinks going to Tibetan school is more important and then I didn't feel like going. But then, we talked for like an hour on the phone, and now I'm totally motivated to go solo to the rally. It'll be a blast.

OH & WHEN YOU COME, TAKE THE TRAIN!!!! leave a cleaner carbon footprint.

ps.I'll post pics from the rally 2morrow oks. yep.I'm finally taking blogging seriously...u kno i would take it even more seriously if more people read--more often--& commented often..hehe

thnx 4 reading! and following what this one person is doing to save mother earth & it's inhabitants.

another ps. Earth day is coming soooon.

xoxo
radblogger<3

SEA OF PEOPLE -- RALLY UP!!!!

Any environmental freak may know this date "April 14"...yes yes yes! it's National Day of Climate Action! it's a very important day and will become even more important in the coming years.

SO HERE ARE THE DEETS FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING: Theres going to be a rally called "Sea of People"....i hope you know why, but just in case you don't...Manhattan will be under water in the next hundred or so years which is terrible but we are the cause of this horrible problem. So everyone who lovessss NYC! & lovess mother earth should deffo be there.





Join us at Battery Park on the main lawn at 12 Noon on Saturday, April 14 (this sat). DIRECTIONS: The Battery is accessible from State Street and Battery Place. It is adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (SUBWAY: 4/5 to Bowling Green, R/W to Whitehall Street, 1 to South Ferry. BUS: M1, M6, M15 to South Ferry)

well..i don't do well with directions..so i'm just gonna have to ask my dad to explain. for more info go to: www.seaofpeople.org

THERE IS ONLY ONE DRESS CODE FOR THE RALLY: BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUST WEAR SOMETHING BLUE....YOUR UNDERWEAR COULD BE BLUE, YOUR SHIRT, PANTS ...ANYTHING..JUST SHOW YOUR BLUES OFFF!!!!!!!!!! BUBBLE BALLOONS ARE ENCOURAGED..U KNO TO GIVE YOU THAT SEA FEEELING..HEHE..OK..NOT FUNNY. JUST BE BLUE.



SO BE THERE!!!!

brief: Time mag covers another story on Climate Change

I'll post a more detailed one later with the articles & all posted here. This is just a brief one.



I subscribe to Time mag which i soo <3..& style="font-style: italic;">CLIMATE CHANGE! yes..their cover story was on climate change; I think it's their eighth time to feature this issue on the cover...this one having to do with what we can do about it..as individuals, lawyers, corporations etc. You can read all the articles on www.time.com or buy the mag on newstands now. It's a weekly mag I reckon so if that's the case then buy it this week or check the website this week.

US's CO2 emissions violate human rights. As we debate GB, Alaskans are aldready facing the consequences.

ps.Inuits are the native americans that live in Alaska..in other words, they're eskimos but it is a derrogatory word for them to be described as.

US CO2 emissions 'violate rights'

Traditional hunting and fishing techniques are at risk from thin ice

A delegation of Inuit has travelled to Washington to argue that the US government's climate change policies violate human rights.

The group has filed a legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, demanding that the US limits its emission of greenhouse gases.

The Inuit say pollution is contributing to melting ice and thawing permafrost, affecting their way of life.

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at about twice the global average.

Representatives for Inuit communities living within the Arctic Circle presented evidence to the Commission on Thursday in an attempt to link human-induced climate change to international human rights.

The hearing is the latest stage in the legal process, which began in December 2005 when the petition was filed.

Call for caps

The delegation is being led by Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a former chairwoman of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, a representative body for Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.

Mrs Watt-Cloutier, who has been nominated alongside former US Vice President Al Gore for a Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change, was responsible for submitting the petition.

Coastal erosion and thawing permafrost threatens settlements (Image: ANSC)

The document urges the commission to recommend that the "United States adopt mandatory limits to its emissions of greenhouse gases".

It also asks for the US to work within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".

Mrs Watt-Cloutier, and the petition's 62 other signatories, are calling on the US to work with the Arctic communities to help them adapt to the impact of unavoidable climate change.

The action was brought against the US following the publication of an extensive scientific study of the Arctic region.

The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment involved hundreds of scientists from all over the globe and took four years to compile.

Among its findings, the assessment said that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would "contribute to additional Arctic warming of about 4-7C (7-13F), about twice the global average, over the next 100 years".

Arctic natives 'left out in cold' Threat to region's way of life

It also projected that shorter and warmer winters would affect sea ice cover, resulting in changes to animal behaviour and Inuit access to food sources.

Addressing the commission, Mrs Watt-Coultier said: "The ice is not only our roads but also our supermarket.

"Deteriorating ice conditions imperil Inuit in many ways," she added. "Ice pans used for hunting at the floe edge are more likely to detach from the land fast ice and take hunters away.

"Many hunters have been killed or seriously injured after falling through ice that was traditionally known to be safe."

'Right to life'

Legal representatives from two US-based organisations, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Earthjustice, are helping the group with the case.

Martin Wagner, Earthjustice's managing attorney, is one of people who gave evidence to the commission.

He said: "The effects of global warming interfere with the realisation of the right to life, physical integrity and security.

"It is destroying lands and ecosystems to which indigenous cultures throughout the hemisphere are tied. In order to survive, [they] are thus forced to assimilate with other cultures in ways and on a schedule that they have not chosen."

If the petition is successful, the commission could refer the US administration to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for a legal judgement.

Both the commission and the court work within the framework of the American Convention on Human Rights.

However, the US has not ratified the convention, so a ruling in favour of the Inuit would be largely symbolic.

keeping u updated on the latest GB news!! ..this guy is a dolt!

Rush is Mush: Limbaugh Denies Global Warming Impact on Polar Bears

Poor Rush. He's now reduced to calling weathermen liars and people who care about the plight of the polar bear wackos. Next he'll be stealing candy from babies.

Now, if the polar bears are disappearing and you're up there on their turf and you're drilling holes in their turf that they might fall into, and they come along and they don't like this -- and you're trying to protect them and the environment -- let them eat you! It's the least you can do.

Earth to Rush: Elvis is dead. Global warming is real. And you really need to take a vacation - to the Arctic.

While global warming deniers have clearly lost the battle on the scientific front, they have entered a new stage in their attempts to discredit the widely accepted belief among scientists that humans are causing global warming. This new strategy, largely of ad hominem attacks on scientists and other key figures in the environmental movement, is becoming a disturbing trend in the echo-chamber populated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell and Michael Savage. Rather than disputing the content of the message, they have been reduced to childish attacks and outright deception. While this trend is not entirely new, it appears to be more coordinated now than ever before.

Join us on the flipside for the latest nonsense out of Limbaugh's mouth, the facts that prove him wrong and a simple yet effective action you can take right now.

On his widely syndicated radio talk show Thursday, Rush referred to those who accept global warming as fact as, "environmentalist wackos." Sure Rush, the scientific community at large, as well as the Bush administration, are all environmentalist wackos. He then went on to address "some guy" aka John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation, as well as the environmental movement as a whole, with the following: "you are all wrong, and whether you know it or not, you are lying to your audiences." In a further attempt to somehow make himself look even more ridiculous than he already does, Rush also claimed that the habitat of polar bears is not shrinking.

Unfortunately for Rush, the facts are on our side:

1) NASA photos and documentation showing a steady decline in polar sea ice since at least the 1970s.

2) The scientific community, as evidenced by the IPCC (pdf), has reached a consensus that it is "very likely" that global warming is caused by human emissions.

3) The National Snow and Ice Data Center: "If current rates of decline in sea ice continue, the summertime Arctic could be completely ice-free well before the end of this century." Click here to see a graph depicting this decline between 1978 and 2005.

You can take action on this now by contacting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall and informing him you are among the majority that supports the proposal to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service is only taking public comments on this until April 9th so it is essential that you make your voice heard immediately!

Please distribute this message broadly and freely. The best way to counteract the work of global warming deniers is to let the truth spread like wildfire.